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January 7, 2011
Question

Table wrapping in PE 5.4?

  • January 7, 2011
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Has anyone seen a wrapping issue in tables in 5.4? We're upgrading a customer from 5.3 and we're getting wrapping in tables in 5.4. We've tried a couple build of 5.4 and get the same result.


So far, we can't find a good reason for the wrapping in FOSI. Anyone else seeing anything like this in 5.4?

    7 replies

    1-Visitor
    January 7, 2011
    Hi, Jeff...

    In my experience, wrapping in tables is usually a desirable result.
    Can you give more details on what result you're seeing and what you
    expected, instead?

    -Brandon 🙂


    On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Jeff Stevenson
    <jstevenson@gpslsolutions.com> wrote:
    > Has anyone seen a wrapping issue in tables in 5.4? We're upgrading a
    > customer from 5.3 and we're getting wrapping in tables in 5.4. We've tried a
    > couple build of 5.4 and get the same result.
    > So far, we can't find a good reason for the wrapping in FOSI. Anyone else
    > seeing anything like this in 5.4?
    > -----End Original Message-----
    1-Visitor
    January 7, 2011
    Hey Brandon,


    We're seeing things like percentages (99.1%, 99.5%) wrap when they did not in 5.3.


    So we're getting this



    99.5
    %

    95.5
    %


    The same with col headers. By our estimates, everything in the table is the same content-wise so we cannot figure the wrapping.
    1-Visitor
    January 8, 2011
    Did anything change with the fonts on the system? Sounds like the
    character widths have changed or possibly changes in the composition
    engine. Based upon the example it looks like you have small amounts
    of data and tight cells, so that was why I'm suggesting fonts as a possiblity.

    ..dan

    1-Visitor
    January 10, 2011
    I don't think fonts are the problem. We're using standard Arial fonts.


    1-Visitor
    January 10, 2011
    Are the % symbols from your keyboard or are they character entities? You could try replacing one with the other to see if it makes a difference. I don't know what it would mean if it did make a difference, other than providing a band-aid, but it might point to something else that could be changed.
    1-Visitor
    January 10, 2011
    > I don't think fonts are the problem. We're using standard Arial fonts.
    >
    >

    So no OS changes then? Fonts would be the same but the internals (hints,
    etc) could change.

    ..dan
    1-Visitor
    January 11, 2011
    FYI, PTC gave me an answer on this. It seems hyphenation rules have changed in 5.4. The fix was to set hyphenation to "No" in the right contexts.